CARSTEN ØSTERLUND is a Professor at the iSchool at Syracuse University. His research explores the organization, creation, and use of documents in distributed environments where people’s daily practices are characterized by high mobility. He is particularly interested in the interplay between social and material structures and how they together facilitate distributed work, play and learning. Empirically he studies these issues through in-depth qualitative and quantitative studies of everyday work practices in a range of settings including citizen science, crowdsourcing, healthcare, distributed science teams, game design and Fintech. He earned a Ph.D. in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a former student of UC Berkeley, University of Århus, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been affiliated with the Work Practice and Technology Group at Xerox PARC. Specialties: • Organizational implications of information systems and technology• The organization, creation, and use of documents in distributed, mobile and virtual work environments • Trace methodologies• Organizational learning and knowledge• Sociomaterial processes• Qualitative methods and ethnography